Innovation Strategy Lead

Guardian Jobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Hill is supporting a leading animal welfare organisation in recruiting an Innovation Strategy Manager to join its Innovation Team in Battersea, London. This permanent role is 35 hours per week and hybrid – 50% office-based, with a salary of £51,313 per annum.

You will shape and deliver the organisation's innovation strategy, bringing together insight, data and external research to identify opportunities and priority actions.

Qualifications

• Strong strategic thinking, insight and synthesis skills.
• Experience framing problems and turning ambiguity into clear direction.
• Experience implementing new processes, tools or ways of working.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Experience engaging external partners to bring new ideas and expertise.
• Knowledge of innovation approaches such as design thinking, experimentation and impact measurement.

Responsibilities

• Developing and evolving the organisation's innovation strategy.
• Identifying emerging trends, insights and opportunities and translating these into strategic recommendations.
• Bringing together user insight, data and external research to inform priorities.
• Helping identify and prioritise high-impact innovation opportunities.
• Supporting the development and management of an innovation pipeline.
• Helping successful innovations move from pilots into implementation and scale.
• Capturing learning from implementation and feeding this into future innovation activity.
• Building strong relationships across the organisation and with external partners.
• Working closely with Insight colleagues to ensure evidence informs decision-making.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Insight synthesis

Problem framing

Strategy execution

Research capability

Stakeholder influence

Cross-team collaboration

External partnerships

Design thinking

Job description

Harris Hill is supporting a leading animal welfare organisation in recruiting an Innovation Strategy Manager to join its Innovation Team in Battersea, London. This permanent role is 35 hours per week and hybrid – 50% office-based, with a salary of £51,313 per annum.

You will shape and deliver the organisation's innovation strategy, bringing together insight, data and external research to identify opportunities and priority actions.